Benjamin Morgan
@benjaminmorgan.bsky.social
Professor at UChicago | bird nerd | lakefront enjoyer | violin player | book hoarder 🚲🦩🏳️🌈
How can you be against AI when it says stuff like this
August 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How can you be against AI when it says stuff like this
fantastic headline 10/10
May 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
fantastic headline 10/10
word of the day: eierlegende Wollmilchsau
April 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
word of the day: eierlegende Wollmilchsau
Ingres, Portrait of the Countess of Tournon (1812)
April 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Ingres, Portrait of the Countess of Tournon (1812)
olaf stapledon's graph of a two hundred billion year time scale for his novel Last and First Men (1930)
April 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
olaf stapledon's graph of a two hundred billion year time scale for his novel Last and First Men (1930)
I thought this "welcome to Turkey, we invented bread!" promo on Turkish Airlines had to be hyperbole, but I stand corrected
March 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I thought this "welcome to Turkey, we invented bread!" promo on Turkish Airlines had to be hyperbole, but I stand corrected
let's bring back book titles with five "et ceteras" in them
March 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
let's bring back book titles with five "et ceteras" in them
i think i've set a record with my library fines
February 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
i think i've set a record with my library fines
Please, NYT cooking…not gochujang snickerdoodles…I can’t take it anymore…
February 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Please, NYT cooking…not gochujang snickerdoodles…I can’t take it anymore…
George Eliot on AI (1879): "the planet may be filled with [inorganic] beings who...will execute changes as...complicated as those of human language...without sensitive impression: there may be...mute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions, and no consciousness there even to enjoy the silence"
February 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
George Eliot on AI (1879): "the planet may be filled with [inorganic] beings who...will execute changes as...complicated as those of human language...without sensitive impression: there may be...mute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions, and no consciousness there even to enjoy the silence"
omg IT'S THE PHONES
January 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
omg IT'S THE PHONES
We should have anticipated that AI models would become the "fastest depreciating asset in human history" purely from the fact that the university of chicago purchased one
January 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We should have anticipated that AI models would become the "fastest depreciating asset in human history" purely from the fact that the university of chicago purchased one
He regularly shows up at 7pm to demand I stop working
January 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
He regularly shows up at 7pm to demand I stop working
Darwin to Hooker, 1865: "how funny men's minds are! he says he is chiefly converted [to my views in Origin of Species] because my books make the Birth of Christ, Redemption by Grace, etc., plain to him!"
January 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Darwin to Hooker, 1865: "how funny men's minds are! he says he is chiefly converted [to my views in Origin of Species] because my books make the Birth of Christ, Redemption by Grace, etc., plain to him!"
I love a table of contents that is also a poem
January 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I love a table of contents that is also a poem
Someone wants me to stop working
January 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Someone wants me to stop working
"the Kosmos, in whose joints we are but moss and fungus" is so dramatic. (Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et Umbra")
January 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"the Kosmos, in whose joints we are but moss and fungus" is so dramatic. (Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et Umbra")
just imagine if your name were "Cloudesley Brereton"
January 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
just imagine if your name were "Cloudesley Brereton"
Reveries of World History: From Earth's Nebulous Origin to its Final Ruin, or, The Romance of a Star
January 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reveries of World History: From Earth's Nebulous Origin to its Final Ruin, or, The Romance of a Star
found a one-sentence horror movie in an 1879 psychology manual: "such unfortunate individuals are sane only when confined in an asylum"
January 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
found a one-sentence horror movie in an 1879 psychology manual: "such unfortunate individuals are sane only when confined in an asylum"
So brave of Top Banker to put his name to this quote
January 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
So brave of Top Banker to put his name to this quote
Samuel Butler came up with the idea of artificial intelligence in 1863 and then wrote a novel about people who banned it because they knew how disastrous it would be
January 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Samuel Butler came up with the idea of artificial intelligence in 1863 and then wrote a novel about people who banned it because they knew how disastrous it would be
love that this little press went with a sexy greek astronaut illustration for their SF series
January 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
love that this little press went with a sexy greek astronaut illustration for their SF series
Arthur Symons, "The Decadent Movement in Literature": "Healthy we cannot call it, and healthy it does not wish to be considered."
January 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Arthur Symons, "The Decadent Movement in Literature": "Healthy we cannot call it, and healthy it does not wish to be considered."
